Numbers 35:31
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
You are not to accept a ransom for the life of a murderer who deserves to die; he must surely be put to death.
In context
29 This will be a statutory ordinance for you for the generations to come, wherever you live.
30 If anyone kills a person, the murderer is to be put to death on the testimony of the witnesses. But no one is to be put to death based on the testimony of a lone witness.
31 You are not to accept a ransom for the life of a murderer who deserves to die; he must surely be put to death.
32 Nor should you accept a ransom for the person who flees to a city of refuge and allow him to return and live on his own land before the death of the high priest.
33 Do not pollute the land where you live, for bloodshed pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land on which the blood is shed, except by the blood of the one who shed it.
Numbers 35:31 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- You are not to accept a ransom for the life of a murderer who deserves to die; he must surely be put to death.
- KJV King James Version
- Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, which is guilty of death: but he shall be surely put to death.
- WEB World English Bible
- “‘Moreover you shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death. He shall surely be put to death.
- ASV American Standard Version
- Moreover ye shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer, that is guilty of death; but he shall surely be put to death.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- 'And ye take no atonement for the life of a murderer who [is] condemned — to die, for he is certainly put to death;
- DBY Darby Translation
- And ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, who is guilty of death, but he shall certainly be put to death.
- WBS Webster Bible
- Moreover, ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, who is guilty of death: but he shall be surely put to death.